Rome category: 2065 books

What was really going on at Roman banquets? In this lively new book, veteran Romanist Matthew Roller looks at a little-explored feature of Roman culture: dining posture. In ancient Rome, where dining was an indicator of social position as well as an extended social occasion, dining posture offered...

Les Femmes à Rome Gaston Boissier, historien et philologue français (1823-1908) Ce livre numérique présente «Les Femmes à Rome», de Gaston Boissier, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder...

Les catacombes de Rome Gaston Boissier, historien et philologue français (1823-1908) Ce livre numérique présente «Les catacombes de Rome», de Gaston Boissier, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder...

The Teacher in Ancient Rome: The Magister and His World by Lisa Maurice investigates a particular aspect of education in ancient Rome, namely the figure of the teacher. After identifying and defining the different kinds of teachers in the Roman education systems, Maurice illuminates their ways of...

Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores the role and influence of rivers and their surrounding...

**In 410 A. D., King Alaric and the Visigoths besieged and sacked Rome. “The eternal city”, which had been the centre of one of greatest empires ever to have existed, had been taken by Rome’s enemies and her wealth plundered.** But although Rome had fallen, this was not the end...

Mounting social inequality, the increased political polarization, and the republic's transformation into an empire of consumption - these are just a few of the similarities between modern America and ancient Rome. How does America relate to Europe, and how did the Romans see their Greek colonies -...

*Includes art depicting Hannibal and other important people in his life.*Discusses the debate over which route Hannibal took to cross the Alps*Includes a Table of ContentsGod has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death. HannibalA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives...

In the past few decades there has been an explosion of interest in the period of late antiquity. Rather than being viewed within a paradigm of the fall of the Roman Empire, these centuries have come to be seen as a time of immense creativity and significance in western history. Popes and the Church...

12 chapitres enlevés et fascinants révèlent les secrets de la Rome antique. Largement traitée, la chute de Rome éclipse trop souvent sa réussite. L'Empire romain est pourtant une vaste construction politique qui a rassemblé, cinq siècles durant, une multitude d'ethnies parlant des dizaines...

Abrégé de l’histoire romaine (Les 4 Livres) - Florus   Ouvrage traduit par Théophile Baudement (1808-1874).   Ce livre comprend l'édition intégrale (les 4 Livres) et  comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement...

This book is about Rome; but not the Rome you read about in your History textbooks. In this history, Rome avoided the Social War and the following cycle of civil wars which raged for sixty years before Augustus established his supremacy and became Emperor. Instead of Silo becoming a casualty...

Jean-Louis Ferrary, membre de l’Institut, directeur d’études émérite à l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, est un spécialiste des rapports entre Rome et le monde grec, et de l’évolution des cités grecques sous la domination romaine. Ses vingt-six études regroupées ici traitent successivement...

A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military...